I mean, they're suggesting TPM as an essential because Bitlocker uses it not the OS generally. But if you don't want or need Bitlocker...
Yes. Meaning for entirely optional, additional "security" systems. Not the OS itself which should in theory work without those.
I find it hard to understand why people are waiting for a Windows 11 build? What for? For stuffed telemetry that can't even be deleted? Because it's embedded in the code of Windows itself. I've been uninstalling the s**t out of windows 11 for about 2 days and I still can't get it all out. The scripts no longer work that they used to work, and if they work, the removal goes to a small percentage (junk) Think about it, why do you need Windows Hello? Why do you need the Phone? And the extra features of Windows 11 which you will never even use? windows 11 for an American is like an iphone 12 they bought with the money allocated by Corona 19 for 1200 dollars.
I think MS should change the system requirement to what was in Windows 10. There is no reason for TPM, UEFI and secure boot for Windows 10 + visual changes = 11.
The thing about winrecfg is that you don't actually have to integrate it. I was doing that for the later versions of my diskpart/setup script to make it more official, but as long as you have the file in the correct locations, the system won't care. This was also the case for the choice.exe and the choice.exe.mui files that were copied from the system files because they were not present in the winpe files. There is no winpe integration package for choice command. So if you want to do this yourself, you can take a winpe iso for an image that WILL let you integrate. Figure out EXACTLY the locations where the winrecfg.exe and mui files go. Extract these 22000 files with expand. Put them in the proper folder structure like I did with the choice command and the choice.exe.mui in the en-us directory. It takes up a little more room if you don't integrate them, but with files this small it's like 50kb or something. It's very tiny.
This is a great way to sell Windows 10 extended support contracts to Corporations with perfectly functional TPM 1.2 devices.
My Windows 10 install was getting more and more f***ed up, so I decided to try this out. Did a clean install with TPM and Safeboot enabled and its working great.
running: Code: expand WinPE-WinReCfg.cab /f:winrecfg.exe test but it expands the exe to: Code: \test\amd64_microsoft-windows-winrecfg_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.22000.1_none_d2c\winrecfg.exe I want to get rid of the: Code: amd64_microsoft-windows-winrecfg_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.22000.1_none_d2c part. I will see if i can copy the files to a temp folder with your base files in + the winrecfg.exe and the mui file and next put it in the boot file. EDIT, i forgot this is for win 11 22000 only, so i can put winrecfg.exe inside your folder by default, only need to provide the mui file for each language EDIT2: i see all winrecfg.exe.mui files are identical for each language?